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Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. On today's episode, I'm going to be

going through the Teen Vogue article that recently dropped with Olivia Plath from Welcome to Plathville.

I know many people over the course of the show have reached out to me with clips from the show

that resonated with them. I know for me, uh, who came late into the show, I really saw myself in many

ways represented in some of the conversations that were happening on screen. And so I just want to go

line by line through the article. Uh, this is by no means a substitute for the article itself. I definitely

recommend you go check it out.

It's incredibly well constructed and has some amazing photographs as well.

So for the full experience, be sure to head over to Teen Vogue and read the full article.

The entire conversation is happening over there.

But I want to give some my commentary is somebody who comes out of a fundamentalist

Christian environment. For those you that are new to this channel, I spent the first almost 20

years of my life connected to the independent fundamental Baptist movement, which had a lot

of crossover into some of the world that Olivia talks about in this article. And so I resonated a lot with her journey, with her conversations surrounding deconstruction,

questioning her faith, all that and more.

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